Example sentences of "[noun] go up [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
2 | I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid . |
3 | Through such developments , a cadre of AEA managers went up the commercial learning curve . |
4 | When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ . |
5 | After a long week , I received a phone call at lunchtime to say that the specimen was at the airport about to be collected , and I made arrangements to go up the following day . |
6 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
7 | On Thursday the weedkiller train went up the Cambrian Coast , thus spending two nights at Machynlleth . |
8 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
9 | The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top . |
10 | Mind you 're still got , still getting a lot of heat going up the old chimney are n't you ? |